(January 29, 2017 at 8:21 pm)Zenith Wrote:(January 23, 2017 at 9:40 am)Tonus Wrote: How smart can they be if they're leaving their fate in the hands of a small group of gullible people, whose influence they could negate by taking the simple action of voting?
It's complicated. And, I believe, most people who don't go to vote - even smart ones - don't feel like their fate lies in the hands of the people who go to vote.
I think that this happens when people focus on one factor (electing a President) and not on other factors that can have a greater impact (electing both local and national representatives). The number of people who come out to vote in 2018 will be very telling. It's potentially a much more impactful election, but turnout and coverage are just a small fraction of what we get during the Presidential election cycle.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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